- Berk and co-author’s systematic review of the relative effectiveness of conditional and unconditional cash transfers is now out in The Campbell Collaboration Library.
- In Science last week, Sendhil Mullainathan and co-authors have work showing the cognitive costs of poverty. The Atlantic cities has a summary.
- Emily Oster has Stata code up on her webpage for examining omitted variables bias through coefficient movements (a la Altonji and her recent paper).
- In case you missed it last month, the World Bank’s Governance for Development blog had a nice piece on Impact evaluation of Justice projects in developing countries.
- Also interesting since our last links was a discussion on Haba na haba on taking kids with you to do fieldwork in Africa.
- Randomized Encouragement designs in agriculture – a short paper in the AJAE by Conner Mullally, Steve Boucher and Michael Carter describes how encouragement designs could be better used to learn about agricultural development.
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